IANAL, but I thought this might bring some light: > The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each pers

IANAL, but I thought this might bring some light: > The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each person owns her friends list, but not her friends’ information. A person has no more right to mass export all of her friends’ private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friends’ private photo albums. > Email is different from social networking because in an email application, each person maintains and owns their own address book, whereas in a social network your friends maintain their information and you just maintain a list of friends. Because of this, we think it makes sense for email applications to export email addresses and for social networks to export friend lists. Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/googles-response-to-facebooks-response-to-googles-facebook-api-ban/#comment-95565131 http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/googles-response-to-faceboo... So the way they're construing this, contact information is not your data to begin with, but rather someone else's data which you've been granted (perfectly revokable) access to. I don't know if this holds in court, but I'm pretty sure no one will bother bringing this to court to find out.